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 LC    Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher* Id (Atlas):
    Culicicapa ceylonensis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher, Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher, Grey-headed Flycatcher, Gray-headed Flycatcher

Family
Stenostiridae (Fairy Flycatcher And Allies)

Size
10.50 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1820)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical mangroves, moist forests, shrublands. Also dry forest, rural gardens, plantations.

Range (Guide)
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

Unknown to Afghanistan.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (145)...)

 
Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher (Culicicapa ceylonensis) [XC90711]
     by Lakshminarasimha R from Gunung Mulu NP, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia (song)

 
Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher (Culicicapa ceylonensis) [XC491052]
     by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Teak plantation , Vientiane Prefecture, Laos (alarm call)

Subspecies
Subspecies identity of birds on Sumbawa and Lomblen (Lesser Sundas) uncertain, provisionally included in sejuncta.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • calochrysea Oberholser, 1923   -  Himalayas from northern Pakistan (Murree Hills) and Kashmir east to north-east, central and central-eastern India, Bangladesh, central and southern China, Myanmar (except southern Tenasserim), Thailand (except south-western and south) and northern and central Indochina. Non-breeding from central and southern Pakistan (Indus Valley) through plains of northern and central India to southern China and Indochina.
  • ceylonensis (Swainson, 1820)   -  South-western India and Sri Lanka.
  • antioxantha Oberholser, 1923   -  Southern Myanmar (southern Tenasserim), south-western and southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Bali.
  • sejuncta Hartert, 1897   -  Sumbawa, Flores and Lomblen, in Lesser Sundas.
  • connectens Rensch, 1931   -  Sumba, in Lesser Sundas.



References
See References.


Files:
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